The Urban Fairy Freebies and Upcoming events

Hey everyone.  Happy St. Paddy's Day! Brisket and Corned beef in the crock pot are smelling delicious!!

Here's a fun St. Paddy's freebie from The Urban Fairy!

Dani (aka The Urban Fairy) just posted her latest newsletter with some great new products and previews of what is coming up this week. It's her 30th birthday week, so she and all the Flutters (the creative team members) are madly and happily creating tons of freebies for you coming this week. There is even a freebie in this newsletter created by the wicked talented Flutter Ona (ut oh  - there is my new england accent coming out...) so you should really check it out!  Did you see that little button on the top left of my blog (that I designed!)? If you hit it on Thursday 3-21-13, you will be taken to one my fellow Flutter's blogs and be able to access freebies and a progressive interview with Dani, The Urban Fairy!

She will also be having a Pin it to Win it contest so if you love her stuff this is the week to follow along!!
Here is a preview of the Pin It to Win It Pinterest Giveaway coming next week. If you are interested, follow the  Facebook page and watch for the Pin it to Win it thread on March 20th

In this newsletter, Dani featured 4 of my layouts in the section about the Fizzle Pop Kit fan freebie papers.  You can get them HERE. (You must LIKE the Facebook page and then you can click on Fan freebies to access the freebies)  You'll remember these from my post last week but here they are again for your viewing pleasure!!

This week will be busy with the Birthday Week Blog Hop but I also hope to make at least 1 or 2 St Paddy's Day-inspired LOs  I am looking at this cute kit from Manda Lane Scraps.

Winter Love Bundle - Deal of the Day at The Digital Scrapbooking Studio AND FREEBIES!

Are you looking for a kit to scrap all your winter memories?  Well, you might want to take advantage of today's Deal of the Day over at the Digital Scrapbooking Studio. For 12$ (70% off retail) you can get this adorable Winter Love Bundle by The Urban Fairy and Booland Designs.

Diamonds and doves and box for the ring; 

pearls and glitter, timing’s everything.  

Close your eyes and open your heart; 

a post card with kisses is a great way to start.  

Fill a box or a bag with colors of blue; 

the beauty of winter and a love that’s so true.  

When it’s time to embellish life’s most beautiful things 

Winter Love is the kit that’ll make your heart sing.  

Flowers and ribbons, a hinge and a key, 

with silver and white; a sparkly heart for the queen.  

An abundance of elements and stunning winter papers to make the most out of your pages by BooLand Designs and The Urban Fairy

This bundle includes:

The Complete Works Bundle Contains  1 Element Pack -59 Elements  1 Paper Pack -  19 12"x12" papers  1 Pack Clusters  - 5 Cluster Frames  1 Alpha Pack –Alpha includes lower case and numbers and some extras  1 Pack of Cardstock  1 Pack of 8 Glitter Edgers  1 Pack of 4 Stacked Pages 12”x12”  1 Pack of Word Art  1 Pack of Shabby Cardstock  1 Pack of 4 Quick Pages  1 Pack of Glitter Bits  1 Pack of 9 Tags All saved in PNG  format at 300ppi for best quality printing. This product is PU/S4H friendly If you head on over to BooLand Designs Blog post from February 2013 about the Winter Love kit, she has a couple of Winter Love coordinating freebies that are still active at the bottom of the post!! And I just saw this adorable freebie made exclusively for The Urban Fairy's Facebook Fans. Make sure to LIKE her first to get access to the freebie!! And ANOTHER freebie in the Digital Scrapbooking Studio's Newsbrief TODAY ONLY. You might have to sign up for the newsletter to acess this freebie. AND - - >  If you buy this kit you can get This Memory by the Urban Fairy FREE!  This is a limited time offer!!!

New Release Today - Fizzle Pop from The Urban Fairy and Fan Freebie!

Today The Urban Fairy released her newest Little Kit, Fizzle Pop.  It is a contrast kit with a few beautiful and elegant black papers and some very cute elements.

"Fizzle pop is a lovely little kit with a pop of color on dark backgrounds! I've made sure to include a light colored paper as well! The 20 elements are perfect for layering and this is an ideal kit for some white space or elegance!"

Here is the kit preview. It can be found at the Digital Scrapbooking Studio here for only $1.75 right now.

And as a bonus, she has designed a coordinating set of colored papers available as a March 2013 Fan Freebie on her facebook site.

You can find them here and make sure to LIKE her page in order to access the fan freebie!!

Ok on to my layouts. Unfortunately I used elements from both the kit and the fan freebie so none of my layouts appear in the advertisting for the kit. Live and learn!!

Here is a cute layout of my husband's niece Lily. Isn't she a doll?

TUF Fizzle Pop and March2013 Fan Freebie

And here is a cute pict of my friend Tami's twins dressed as fairies.  Tami actually has TWO sets of twin girls. Can you imagine?  I am sure I will be featuring more picts of them in the future.  Thanks, Tami, for sharing all your great pictures with me!

TUF Fizzle Pop and March2013 Fan Freebie

The next layout featured our friend Ray's daughter.  We had her over for a playdate recently and she started hoarding all the balls we had out.  It was too cute not to take a picture of. I love her expression and I just knew I had to scrap it with the title MINE!!

TUF Fizzle Pop and March2013 Fan Freebie

And the LAST layout is a bit unexpected: It's a Banana Slug!  SO elegant! lol.  We met this interesting creature in the Muir Woods on a trip to San Fran a few years ago.  These are some big slugs (and the only real thing I knew about banana slugs was that they are the mascot for UC Santa Cruz. Thank you, Pulp Fiction) but they are really cool.  I was able to get a couple really nice shots and you can even see his vasculature.

TUF Fizzle Pop and March2013 Fan Freebie

Well that's it for this release. I hope you enjoyed the layouts.  Please leave me a comment or GFC me if you like my work!!  I'd really appreciate it.

Eggsceptional Craftiness - Egg planters

If you read my last post you know that I have been boiling hardboiled eggs for various food and craft purposes.  Well the inspiration for the egg craftiness was this Pinterest post about making little planters from egg shells.  OMG, how cute are these??  I really tried to get the original pin on this one, but I went back like 10 degrees of separation and I still hadn't located the original.

And these from Craftionary.net's Easter EGGS pinterest board

So I broke out the pan and boiled me up some eggs just for this purpose!  

Then I got to the task of hollowing out the eggs. In retrospect I could have blown out the raw eggs using the pinhole method.  But here is what I did to the boiled eggs:

boiled egg, sharp knife, small spoon

insert sharp tip carefully and cut the top off the egg

Hollow out.  If you are lucky the egg will just pop out. If not, you'll have to scrape it out

empty egg shells. I let them dry outside for a day or two

Then fill with potting soil and add plants. I have tons of succulents here in SoCal

Oh I poked a small hole in the bottom of each eggshell (with a very sharp corn holder) before filling in order to provide drainage. I also placed them on a bed of potting soil to allow them to drain. I hope these cuttings will grow and then they can be transplanted. I am wondering how long the eggshells will remain intact.  These would also be cute using dyed eggs from easter (using natural dyes of course....I hope to have a crafty post about this in the nearish future!)

What do you think??  Cute, right??